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To: kumar who wrote (44078)	9/15/2002 4:04:48 AM
From: Bilow	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Hi kumar_rangan; Re US citizens not envying the presidential palace, you write: "Probably because we know, its his, only as long as he's elected." I don't know how to explain exactly how the system works to you. Do you have a single example of a recent US president who was elected without wealth and didn't become filthy rich while in office? -- Carl P.S. It's not that I'm trying to suggest that our politicians are particularly venal. In fact, it's my belief that societies where the wealthy control the power (and where those who have the power therefore must become wealthy) are more healthy and pleasant than societies where the leaders are kept poor. Those who want to live in a country where the leader stays poor by choice may consider such places as Iran. I think it is normal human psychology to make oneself wealthy, and abnormal human psychology to deny oneself that, and I'd rather be governed by those with normal psychological impulses.